Roger McGuinn - Shenandoah lyrics

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Roger Mcguinn - Shenandoah

Way hey you rolling river

I'll take her cross yon rolling water

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

The chief disdained the trader's dollar

Way hey you rolling river

My daughter you shall never follow

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

For seven years I courted Sally

Way hey you rolling river

For seven more, I longed to have her

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

She said she would not be my lover

Way hey you rolling river

Because I was a tarry sailor

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

At last there came a Yankee skipper

Way hey you rolling river

He winked his eye and tipped his flipper

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

He sold the chief that firewater

Way hey you rolling river

And cross the river he stole his daughter

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri

Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter,

Way hey you rolling river

I'll take her cross yon rolling water

Away, we're bound away

Cross the wide Missouri